United Public Workers for Action

UPWA demands for California

Revenue Generation

• Nationalize corporate-banks into democratically worker-controlled public utilities
• Nationalize corporate oil/energy companies into democratic worker controlled public utilities
• Abolish 2/3rds requirement for state budgets and taxation
• Eliminate prop. 13’s exemption for commercial real estate
• Implement a fair progressive tax structure
• Opposition to privatizing public services and education
• Eliminate the prison-industrial system
• Promote a criminal justice system based on equal justice for the majority and the rich
• Abolish for-profit health insurance

Alternative Production

• Implement a rational public works project
• Convert military production into a sustainable-green economy
• Convert automobile production into a sustainable-green economy
• Comprehensive mass transit, light rail, and high–speed rail
• Solar heating on every residential and commercial building
• Expand public educational and health services

Social Agenda

• Living-wage jobs for public workers
• Free public education: K through graduate school
• Retraining of workers for sustainable-green production
• Economic, recreational, and cultural opportunities for youth
• Promote the arts
• Single-payer health care
• Moratorium on foreclosures/affordable housing for ALL people
• Human rights and opportunities for immigrants
• UPWA supports and participates in efforts for the organization of an independent working class political party based on a democratically revitalized trade union movement and the movements of the oppressed and organized workers, environmentalists and civil rights activists.
• Support a democratically controlled labor information media network